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Aims and Objectives

> To provide affordable quality training in a range of audio skills > To promote skills sharing across the sector, including radio, podcasting, audiobooks and all forms of audio production > To encourage new entrants and offer opportunities for networking, collaboration and partnership > To encourage networking, collaboration and partnership across the sector. > To promote dIversity in audio production > To be accessible to all those working in the UK Audio sector

Masterclass - the best of British podcasts

A selection of winners from the 2018 British Podcast Awards talk about their approach to podcasting and share some of their tricks of the trade. Featuring:

Craig Parkinson of The Two Shot podcast (Best Culture). Each week, Craig sits down with guests to discuss the highs and sometimes extreme lows of becoming and being an actor. Sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking….Always a great listen!

Bill Leuty is the producer of The Foreign Desk (Best Current Affairs), Monocle 24’s flagship global-affairs show featuring​ expert guests ​and in-depth analysis of the big issues of the week. Winner in the ‘best current affairs’ category of the 2018 British Podcast awards.

Also, as previously announced, we have Cariad Lloyd of Griefcast (Podcast of the Year) and Ross Sutherland of Imaginary Advice(Best Fiction), and more.

One of the biggest news stories of the year has been how women at the top end of broadcasting have found they are being paid less than their male colleagues. Add to this the impact of high profile sexual behaviour cases, and the #metoo movement, and some feel there’s something of a revolution going on.

But what are the standards that should be acceptable?

And how can women in the radio and audio industry make sure they don’t still end up “with the fuzzy end of the lollipop” when it comes to pay, basic rights and career advancement?

And how can men and women in our industry help to create a fair work environment for all?

For this special RIGtrain masterclass, award-winning broadcaster and member of the Radio Academy Hall of Fame, Jane Garvey, is our host as we hear from experts in law, HR, negotiation, freelance survival and from those who have successfully asserted their creativity in the audio world by doing things differently. Speakers to be announced.

Masterclass: Best of the Audio Production Awards

We start our 2018 series of RIGtrain masterclasses with a series of quick-fire sessions with some of the winners from last year’s Audio Production Awards, sponsored by Audible. Expect a host of winning tips on making the best audio in the business. Among those already signed up are Ed Morrish (Lemn Sissay’s Origin Stories), Lance Dann (Blood Culture podcast) and Eva Krysiak (Everyone Else podcast). There’ll be a chance to mingle and natter, and drinks and nibbles are included.

May masterclass: Make Yourself Huge - in Podcasting!

In association with our friends at the British Podcast Awards, RIGtrain presents a masterclass featuring the very best in the business - award winners, podcast insiders, and distribution gurus.

Our last event on the subject, was provocatively titled “How to Become a Podcast Millionaire”. Two years on, the podcast sector has exploded, with new ways of monetising content, and some podcasters are starting to prove that it just might be done. Our host is Alix Fox, presenter of The Guardian’s Close Encounters podcast, reigning “Sex Educator of the Year”, and X-rated agony aunt on The Modern Mann.

* Speakers Revealed! *

Benjamin Partridge is a comedy writer, performer, producer and podcaster. His podcast, ‘The Beef and Dairy Network’, is the “number one podcast for those involved or just interested in the production of beef animals and dairy herds”. He has written and produced for a number of BBC radio comedy programmes, and is the proud owner of 2 British Podcast Awards, including a gold for best comedy podcast.

Martin Zaltz Austwick has been making podcasts for almost a decade. He is one third of ‘Answer Me This!’, as well as ‘Brain Train’ and ‘Global Lab’. Martin is the co-creator of ‘Song by Song’, and along with Sam Pay is discussing the entire Tom Waits discography “episode by episode, song by song”. It won the award for Best Review at the British Podcast Awards.

Ryan Dilley is a BBC veteran with credits on BBC Radio 4’s PM and BBC Two’s ‘Newsnight’. Since October 2016, he has run the UK office of Panoply – a US podcasting network owned by Slate which features such shows as ‘Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History', ‘You Must Remember This’,‘The History Chicks’ and others. Ryan was also a Judge for the 2017 British Podcast Awards.

Husband and wife podcasters Dave Corkery and Cathy Cullen produce ‘The Cinemile’ in which they “over-analyse movies on their short walk home from the cinema”, so they decided to start recording it. The Cinemile has been featured in the Guardian, the Observer, and they are winners of the gold award for Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards.